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  • ‘Stifling’: Extreme Heat Hammers the U.S.

    ‘Stifling’: Extreme Heat Hammers the U.S.

    Today is officially the first day of summer, but seriously hot weather first arrived in some parts of the country over a month ago. And the scorching trend is set to continue. The National Weather Service is forecasting more triple-digit temperatures across large swathes of the U.S. this week.


  • 80% of Americans Suffered Through Extreme Heat Last Year

    80% of Americans Suffered Through Extreme Heat Last Year

    For most people living in the U.S., last summer felt unbearably hot in a new way — and new statistics on last year’s heat waves back that up. According to federal data analysed by the Washington Post this week, 80% of Americans live in a county that had at least one day of “abnormally high”…